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The crash took down several other riders, including Dutch outsider for the overall victory Bauke Mollema of Belkin.

Last month Froome also fell on his left-hand side at the Criterium du Dauphine.

He had been leading that race until the sixth stage crash.

He lost the lead to Alberto Contador the very next day and then cracked on the eighth and final stage, finishing more than five minutes behind the winner and dropping to 11th in the overall standings behind American champion Andrew Talansky.

It's been a tricky year for Froome who also suffered a lower back problem earlier in the year that forced him out of March's Tirreno-Adriatico race while illness kept him out of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege Ardennes Classic in April.